When Generals Behave Like Mothers

Gary Cooperberg
June 16, 2006

We sing “Hatifkvah”, but it seems that we have lost the hope. We have still not escaped the ghetto mentality which tells us that our highest priority is to please the goyim. What will the nations think if we act as a proud independent nation and vanquish our enemies? Our leaders are afraid that foreign sympathy for vanquished Arabs will turn the nations against us, so rather than destroy those who seek to destroy us, we make it national policy to live together with our murderers.

There are those who angrily condemn those Jews who still do have Jewish pride and self respect. Nadia Matar is being prosecuted for being a living example of Jewish self respect, an act which a self hating Jewish government cannot tolerate. What they fail to understand is that Jewish mothers have been forced to behave like army generals only because our army generals have begun to act like Jewish mothers.

Yesterday two young Jewish girls were almost kidnaped while trying to hitch a ride in our country. General Yair Golan, in reaction to the incident called upon Jews not to hitch rides in Judea and Samaria. We don’t need IDF generals to act like mothers. Rather than suggest that we stop living normal lives, the general would do better to make kidnaping an impossibility by taking freedom of travel away from our Arab enemies.

Ehud Olmert is going all over the world selling his brand of cowardice as a form of twisted ideology. Rather than admit that we are living in a state of war and simply decide to win it, he has chosen to flee from our enemies and surrender our freedom and independence in the futile hope that the nations of the world will respect us for it. What cowards always fail to understand is that fleeing from bullies never satisfies them. On the contrary, it only encourages them to increase their belligerence. Anyone can see that our brave and bold decision to flee from Gaza has resulted in increased terror which will not stop until our leaders decide to stop it by returning to those areas and destroying our enemies.

Olmert claims that his plans for further retreat are inevitable. This may be true. But what he refuses to see is the fact that such plans will result in strengthening our enemies who will eventually unite in a renewed effort to destroy our country completely. There is no question that any Jewish government will eventually have no choice but to redeem and reclaim all of the lands we have freely given away to our enemies. Our enemies will give us no choice. But the price we will have to pay in innocent lives will be far higher than it would have been had we acted with self respect rather than self humiliation.

When Arabs are not afraid to try to kidnap Jewish girls, the question we should ask ourselves is not “Why do Jewish girls place themselves in danger”? Rather “How is it that Arabs are not afraid to kidnap Jewish girls”? We have an army which is fully capable of making it clear that kidnaping and stone throwing, not to mention shooting at us, are acts punishable by immediate death. Rather than arresting the kidnapers, they should have been shot on sight. It is only because we are tolerant of terror that terror prevails. It is high time that Jewish generals start acting like generals, and stop acting like Jewish mothers.